Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-05

SUpscRrrrsoxs to the new Russian loan
foot up ten times the amount asked for.
ALL the Ghilzais of Southern Arghanistan
hare revolted-
DAMosA CAIRO. q rich Cuban planter, has
been kidnapped by bandits who demand
$25 900 ransom
THE war feeling was reported Increasing
in France owing to the Schnaebeles Incl
dent.
THE Canadian House eff Commons passed
the anti-coercion resolutions by vote OF
I35 to a.
THE voters of a canton in Switzerland,
have dismissed the members of the local
administration for financial mismanage-
ment-
THE pictures for the British Academy ex-
hibition this year are of only average abil-
ity, and there is a marked absence Of start
ling subjects.
IT is reported that the British evacuation
OF Egypt has been set for five years hence.
The Primate Of Hungary will present to
the Pope on his jubilee gold chalice weigh
ing as MUCK as $50 gold ducats-
IT is reported from the City of Mexico
that two of the seven lost Mexican bon
ANA mines have been discovered by
party of American prospectors in Chihua-
hua.
ISAAC CLINE, president of the executive
council of the Window Glass Workers
National Assembly, has been requested to
resign, on the ground OF incompetency and
neglect.
CUSTOMS officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland have received stringent
orders to search all vessels arriving from
America, China and the East, the Govern
merit having been warned that explosives
have been sent from San Francisco to ports
in the East to be transhipped to England.
DESPITE the vigilance of the police st.
Petersburg was recently placarded with
notices threatening with death all OF the
members of the Imperial family, the judges
and Government officials, if the conspira-
tors now under arrest are sentenced to
capital punishment.
IT is reported that Russia has proposed
to remit the Turkish war indemnity in re-
turn for the cesslon Of territory in Asia
Minor.
The Swiss State Council has ratified the
literary copyright convention with the
United States.
THE Belgian Senate has passed the Congo
Loan bill.
Dom PEDRO. of Brazil, was reported seri-
ously sick on the 9th.
THE Cambridge (Eng) University Boat
Club has appointed committee TO make
arrangements with the Harvard Univer-
sity Boat Club for a race between the
ID,
in September.
The wire nail manufactures of America
have formed national association.
THE flood in the st. Lawrence river near
Montreal has entirely subsidized. The losses
are close on to 500, 0O0
THE Michigan Cetral and Canadian Pa
cific roads have made an arrangement re-
garding interchange of business.
A DISPATCH from Cooktown, Australia,
announces that the steamer Benton, of
Singapore, was sunk in a collision with a
bark off the island of Formosa and that $50
persons were drowned. No Europeans
were lost.
DISPATCHES received in London on the
18th from Australia tell of a terrific hurri-
cane which swept over the southern coast
April %, and states that forty boats en-
gagged in the pearl fishing industry, having
on board crews aggregating $50 m en-, were
lost and not soul saved.
A DISPATCH from Cairo says: A skirmish
has taken place ct Sarrass between body
of Arabs and a force of Egyptians, under
command of Major Chermside. The Arabs
forty wounded.
ADvIcEs from Kodiak, Alaska, bearing
date of April 5, state that the sealing
schooner Flying Scud, sailing from that
port, was lost at sea with all on boal>.- The
owner, II. Anderson, Captain Nels Hansen,
Vasila Grignoh and his son and fourteen
native hunters were lost.
The Duke of Portland's country seat in
Ayrshire, Scotland, has been destroyed by
fire.
WATSON, Medill & Co., -four, corn and
seed factors of London, have failed with
$500, 600 liabilities.